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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. For how long has the narrator’s head been fuzzy, at the beginning of "Mothers"?
2. What does Benson think the two-beat drumming is?
3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she told a story about at the supermarket, when she was young?
4. When the narrator of "Mothers" takes the baby from Bad, what does she fail to hear?
5. What noise does Stabler hear, repeatedly, in "Especially Heinous"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is happening in the ending of "Mothers"?
2. What was Father Jones’ relationship with the girl who fell from the rooftop?
3. What is the dominant investigation taking place in ‘"Especial Heinous"?
4. Throughout the story, the narrator provides instructions to the reader, about how to read the story aloud. What effect does this have?
5. What is Machado’s style like?
6. What is the importance of the act of making lists, in "Inventory"?
7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the sexual frankness in Her Body and Other Parties?
8. What is the noise Stabler and Benson hear throughout "Especial Heinous"?
9. What is the DA’s relationship with Benson?
10. What is the effect of the narrator remembering scenes of sexual intimacy within the context of the virus destroying civilization?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the proposition that Her Body and Other Parties is obscene and should be censored for high school students.
Essay Topic 2
What topics would you like to research further, after reading Her Body and Other Parties? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Her Body and Other Parties.
Essay Topic 3
When is Her Body and Other Parties most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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